PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Mateusz Biernat (ranked 1979 p4p, 216 weight class) and Gamora Sadoma (ranked 22611 p4p, 481 weight class). Biernat's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Someday. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Biernat
vs
Sadoma

177 cm
29
163 lbs
15 - 10 - 0

195 cm
21
265 lbs
6 - 2 - 0

Lethal high kicks
Very quick

Decent boxing
Granite chin

Voodoo Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 15 - 10 - 0, fighting out of London, Mateusz Biernat!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Gamora Sadoma!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Frank Dennis and Stewart Dunkirk.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Biernat scores with a head kick.

It looks like Gamora Sadoma has been cut.
Biernat misses with a series of wild punches.
Sadoma swings for the body but Biernat moves out of range.

Biernat has closed the distance and engaged Sadoma in a clinch.
Sadoma is looking to control Biernat's arms but Biernat gets an underhook and turns him. Now Sadoma has his back to the ropes.
Sadoma with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Mateusz Biernat has been cut.
Biernat blocking some punches.

Biernat pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Biernat moves away from the strike by Sadoma.
Biernat avoids the body shot from Sadoma.

Biernat rushes Sadoma and pushes him back against the ropes in a clinch.
Biernat blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Sadoma struggles to land a body shot inside as Biernat controls his hands.
Sadoma misses with a punch on the inside.

Biernat breaks from the clinch.
Biernat throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sadoma is on the wrong end of a nice combination from Biernat.
Biernat throws a sloppy body shot
and Sadoma connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.

That's one minute gone in the round.

The fight moves into the clinch position.

Biernat breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.

Biernat gets a clinch.

Biernat breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Biernat misses with a few strikes there.
Biernat throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Sadoma on the side of the head.
Biernat throws a head kick but Sadoma moves out of range.
Sadoma misses with a wild body shot.
Biernat fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.

Biernat closes the distance and clinches.
Sadoma doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Sadoma fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

Biernat pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Sadoma darts in trying to clinch
and Biernat cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
A left and a right from Biernat both land. Nice combination.

Biernat instigates a clinch.

Biernat pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Sadoma has tried to improve his agility in the runup to this fight.
Nice body kick there by Biernat.
Biernat goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.

That has opened up Gamora Sadoma's cut even more.

Sadoma tries to keep at a distance but Biernat has taken the fight into the clinch.

Biernat breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Sadoma tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Biernat was well out of range. Poor timing from Sadoma.
Biernat avoids the body shot from Sadoma.
A big right from Sadoma misses.

Biernat clinches up against the ropes.

Biernat breaks from the clinch.

Sadoma gets tackled into the ropes by Biernat. Biernat maintains the clinch.
Sadoma can't find room to land a body shot as Biernat controls the action.

Biernat breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sadoma tries to clinch but Biernat moves away
and Biernat counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Biernat moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Sadoma fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Biernat manages to avoid it.
Nice body punch from Biernat.
Sadoma showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Biernat.
Sadoma doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
A thudding body kick lands there by Biernat!
Biernat staying out of range there.

Biernat clips Sadoma with a right and a left that makes him do the chicken dance for a couple of seconds. He touched his left hand down on the canvas so the referee steps between the fighters to give Sadoma a standing 8 count before we can continue the bout.

The cut above Gamora Sadoma's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Biernat misses with a double jab
and Sadoma connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Biernat connects with a quick right hand that sends Sadoma tumbling backwards onto the canvas! As his head bounces into the ropes, it doesn't look good for him beating the count! 3,4,5,6,7 and he's up! No, he's back down again! This one is all over - the referee has called off the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Mateusz Biernat!
Mateusz Biernat retains his heavyweight title!
Mateusz Biernat decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.